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Phyllis Hyman

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Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an American singer and actress. [1]

80 relations: Actor, AllMusic, Apollo Theater, Arista Records, Barry Manilow, Betcha by Golly, Wow, Billboard Hot 100, Broadway theatre, Buddah Records, Can't We Fall in Love Again?, Carnegie Hall, Chuck Mangione, Disco, Discogs, Don't Wanna Change the World, Duke Ellington, Earle Hyman, Eastern Time Zone, Epic Records, Expansion Records, Forever with You, Four Tops, Gamble and Huff, Goddess of Love (album), Grover Washington Jr., I Refuse to Be Lonely, Jazz, Jean Carn, Jon Lucien, Lani Hall, Lenny (film), Living All Alone, Lonnie Liston Smith, Looking Out, Love song, McCoy Tyner, Michael Henderson, Michel Legrand, Monty Alexander, Music, Never Say Never Again, New York City, Norman Connors, Pentobarbital, Pharoah Sanders, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia International Records, Phyllis Hyman (album), Pianist, ..., Pittsburgh, Prime of My Life, Quiet storm, Rhythm and blues, Sérgio Mendes, School Daze, Secobarbital, Sing a Song (album), Singing, Somewhere in My Lifetime, Sophisticated Ladies, Soul music, South Hills (Pennsylvania), St. Clair Village, St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center, Suicide, Swing Street, The Cosby Show, The Stylistics, The Whispers, Theatre World Award, Tony Award, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Too Scared to Scream, Torch song, Vocal jazz, World War II, You Are My Starship, You Know How to Love Me, You Know How to Love Me (song). Expand index (30 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Apollo Theater

The Apollo Theater at 253 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (formerly Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (formerly Eighth Avenue) in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, pp.528-29 is a music hall which is a noted venue for African-American performers.

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Arista Records

Arista Records, Inc. was a major American record label.

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Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician and producer with a career that has spanned more than 50 years.

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Betcha by Golly, Wow

"Betcha by Golly, Wow" is a song written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed that was originally recorded by Connie Stevens as "Keep Growing Strong" on the Bell Records label in 1970.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Buddah Records

Buddah Records (later known as Buddha Records) was an American record label founded in 1967 in New York City.

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Can't We Fall in Love Again?

Can't We Fall in Love Again? is the fifth album by American Soul singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Chuck Mangione

Charles Frank Mangione (born November 29, 1940) is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Don't Wanna Change the World

"Don't Wanna Change the World" is the title of a number-one R&B single by singer Phyllis Hyman, taken from her eighth studio album, Prime of My Life.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Earle Hyman

Earle Hyman (October 11, 1926 – November 17, 2017) was an American stage, television, and film actor.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Expansion Records

Expansion Records is a British record label founded by Northern Soul DJ Richard Searling and Soul Bowl owner John Anderson.

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Forever with You

Forever with You is the tenth and final studio album by American soul singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman.

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Four Tops

The Four Tops are a vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan, USA, who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s.

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Gamble and Huff

Kenneth Gamble (born August 11, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Leon A. Huff (born April 8, 1942, Camden, New Jersey) are an American songwriting and production team credited for developing the Philadelphia soul music genre (also known as Philly sound) of the 1970s.

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Goddess of Love (album)

Goddess of Love is the sixth album by American Soul singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman.

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Grover Washington Jr.

Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist.

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I Refuse to Be Lonely

I Refuse to Be Lonely is the ninth studio album by American Soul singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jean Carn

Jean Carn, also spelled Jean Carne (born Sarah Jean Perkins; March 15, 1947) is an American jazz and pop singer.

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Jon Lucien

Jon Lucien (January 8, 1942 – August 18, 2007) was a vocalist and musician, born Lucien Harrigan on the island of Tortola, the main island of the British Virgin Islands, and raised in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands by his musician father.

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Lani Hall

Lani Hall (born November 6, 1945) is an American singer, lyricist, author, and the wife of Herb Alpert.

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Lenny (film)

Lenny is a 1974 American biographical drama film about the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse.

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Living All Alone

Living All Alone is the seventh album by American soul singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman.

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Lonnie Liston Smith

Lonnie Liston Smith, Jr. (born December 28, 1940) is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with such jazz artists as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion, quiet storm, smooth jazz and acid jazz genres.

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Looking Out

Looking Out is an album by the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner released on the Columbia label in 1982.

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Love song

A love song is a song about romantic love, falling in love, heartbreak after a breakup, and the feelings that these experiences bring.

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McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.

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Michael Henderson

Michael Henderson (born 1951) is an American bass guitarist and vocalist best known for his bass playing with Miles Davis in the early 1970s, on early fusion albums such as Jack Johnson, Live-Evil, and Agharta, as well as series of R&B/soul hits, particularly the Norman Connors produced hit, You Are My Starship in 1976 and other songs in the mid to late 1970s.

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Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand (born 24 February 1932) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist.

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Monty Alexander

Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander (born 6 June 1944) is a jazz pianist.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Never Say Never Again

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 American spy film starring Sean Connery, directed by Irvin Kershner, produced by Jack Schwartzman, and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. with uncredited additional co-writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, from a story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norman Connors

Norman Connors (born March 1, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, composer, arranger, and producer who has led some influential jazz and R&B groups.

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Pentobarbital

Pentobarbital (INN, AAN, BAN, USAN) or pentobarbitone (former AAN and BAN) is a short-acting barbiturate.

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Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia Daily News

The Philadelphia Daily News is a tabloid newspaper that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Philadelphia International Records

Philadelphia International Records (PIR) is an American record label based in Philadelphia.

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Phyllis Hyman (album)

Phyllis Hyman is the self-titled solo debut studio album by American soul singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman.

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Pianist

A pianist is an individual musician who plays the piano.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Prime of My Life

Prime of My Life is the eighth album by American soul singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman.

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Quiet storm

Quiet storm is a radio format and a "super genre" of contemporary R&B, jazz fusion and pop music that is characterized by understated, mellow dynamics, slow tempos, and relaxed rhythms.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Sérgio Mendes

Sérgio Santos Mendes (born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician.

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School Daze

School Daze is a 1988 American musical comedy drama film, written and directed by Spike Lee, and starring Larry Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell-Martin.

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Secobarbital

Secobarbital sodium (marketed by Eli Lilly and Company, and subsequently by other companies as described below, under the brand name Seconal) is a barbiturate derivative drug that was patented in 1934 in the United States.

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Sing a Song (album)

Sing a Song is the second studio album by American singer Phyllis Hyman, her second release off Buddah Records, in 1978.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Somewhere in My Lifetime

Somewhere in My Lifetime is the third studio album by singer Phyllis Hyman.

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Sophisticated Ladies

Sophisticated Ladies is a musical revue based on the music of Duke Ellington.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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South Hills (Pennsylvania)

The South Hills is the southern suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh south of the South Side Slopes.

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St. Clair Village

St.

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St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center

Mount Sinai St.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Swing Street

Swing Street is an album by composer and singer Barry Manilow, released in 1987.

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The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992.

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The Stylistics

The Stylistics are a Philadelphia soul group that achieved its greatest chart success in the 1970s.

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The Whispers

The Whispers are an American group from Los Angeles, California, who have scored hit records since the late 1960s.

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Theatre World Award

The Theatre World Award is an American honor presented annually to actors and actresses in recognition of an outstanding New York City stage debut performance, either on Broadway or off-Broadway.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical has been presented since 1950.

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Too Scared to Scream

Too Scared to Scream (also known as The Doorman) is a 1985 Independent Film/Thriller/Horror movie.

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Torch song

A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.

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Vocal jazz

Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of instruments.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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You Are My Starship

You Are My Starship is an album by the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania jazz drummer Norman Connors.

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You Know How to Love Me

You Know How to Love Me is the fourth album by American soul singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman.

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You Know How to Love Me (song)

"You Know How to Love Me" is a song by Reggie Lucas and James Mtume, most notably recorded by Phyllis Hyman and released on Hyman's fourth studio album of the same name, released in 1979.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Hyman

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